Imagination and the Public Sphere is an interdisciplinary collection which explores the politics of identities and the equally challenging politics of social space, seeking the potential for authentic debate and dissent in a public sphere transformed by the mass media and consumer culture. Using both contemporary and historical examples, contributors to this volume address such intersecting, and at times competing, elements of lived experience and cultural practice as art and politics, celebrity culture and staged display, gender and religion, religion and science, religion and technology, and technology and teaching, aware of the dynamic interplays of expression and regulation and alert for the emergence of unanticipated ways of living and making meaningful connection. This collection asks, in an era that sees identities increasingly pre-packaged and lives thoroughly mediatized and multiply surveyed, what it means to have collectivity, collective life, and what it means to imagine new possibilities and perform them into being. It asks that we take part in addressing these questions together.
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Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 20 May 2013
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443840651
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Susan G. Cumings (PhD Emory University) is a former Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Women''s and Gender Studies at Georgia College and State University. Her areas of research are feminist disability studies autobiography visual aesthetics and the role of creative non-fiction as a medium for critical theory. She has served for over fifteen years on the Executive Board of the Southern Humanities Council an interdisciplinary gathering of academics artists writers and musicians. Her most recent publications include Hand Sewn (Dos Passos Review) and On Writing in a Collaborative Spirit: Nancy Mairs''s Ethic of Community (On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs: A Critical Anthology). Dr Cumings teaches English Philosophy and Women''s and Gender Studies at the College of Saint Rose Albany New York.
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